Format:
1 online resource (188 pages)
ISBN:
9781000407938
,
1000407934
,
9781003021056
,
1003021050
,
9781000407921
,
1000407926
Series Statement:
Key ideas in media and cultural studies
Uniform Title:
Information 2021
Content:
Introduction: what do we do with information? -- Defining -- Searching -- Accessing -- Using -- Creating -- Conclusion: can we do more with information? -- Index.
Content:
"This book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-understand introductory guide to information, offering students the critical tools they need to shift their positioning from consumers and users to creators and critics. Searching, accessing, and using information are central to most daily lives. Yet, many users are not able to define what information is, identify who controls information, and create information to achieve a common good. In this book, Micky Lee teaches readers to critically interrogate key issues such as the categorization of information and knowledge throughout history, what digital divides are, why information is gender and race biased, how governments and corporations control citizens and consumers, as well as how we can resist unbalanced power relations. Readers will not only be able to relate these issues to "old" technologies, such as writing and printing, but will also be able to examine futurist technologies through the lenses of these enduring issues. A thoughtful and comprehensive overview, this is an ideal book for students and scholars of media studies, information and society, and communication and technology"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367897765
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367897768
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367858728
Additional Edition:
ISBN 036785872X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lee, Micky Information New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367897765
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367858728
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003021056
